A. Then it was that Tuesday noon our puddlers stopped. The puddlers stopped at noon as the men came out at night.
Q. How many of them?
A. I should judge there were near a hundred.
Q. What did they complain of?
A. They made no complaints. It was like a perfect panic among them. They said the first thing they knew, the whistle blew at the mill, and "now come on," and they all came down to the steel mills, took the men with them there, and went down to the machine shops and foundries and stopped the men there. They did not succeed in stopping the foundry. They stopped the men at the machine shops. They had not asked for anything prior to that time. Had not asked for any advance. Mr. Scranton went down as soon as he heard of it, and asked them what they wanted, or had some talk with them. Maybe he could tell more about it than I could.
Q. Had they complained of low wages prior to that time?
A. It has been a complaint all through about low wages. I had not heard anything from our men. I suppose I have probably one hundred or one hundred and fifty men under my employ.
Q. You had heard nothing from them?
A. They had made no complaints to me.
Q. In any way?